Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/October 2008

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 1


 * 1) How many black African immigrants in India and China?
 * 2) Blacks in South America
 * 3) Economics research
 * 4) 5 most important dates in classical antiquity
 * 5) monks walk
 * 6) Afro-Arab
 * 7) Presidential nominee
 * 8) When did Indians start moving to England?
 * 9) Architect
 * 10) Plato and Aristotle on Knowledge
 * 11) teosophy and root races

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 2


 * 1) Psychological self-treatment
 * 2) Nigerian press
 * 3) Dass local government
 * 4) Open meeting vs closed meeting
 * 5) ¿ Is  “ textual ”  copy of the Bible ?

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 3


 * 1) uncommitted ohio voters
 * 2) Hawaii Prepaid Healthcare Act
 * 3) Treasury_security#TIPS
 * 4) Titanic (1997 film)
 * 5) Indigenous patterns throughout Central America
 * 6) Chinese in Africa
 * 7) Pyramid
 * 8) Islam fasting and activities
 * 9) What is this symbol?
 * 10) Back issues of Irano-Judaica?
 * 11) If two gay consenting adults have sex in KSA, is it illegal?
 * 12) Baron George Wrangell

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 4


 * 1) jocasta
 * 2) The Man Who Liked Dickens
 * 3) Affair of the Diamond Necklace question
 * 4) David Gisser
 * 5) Sistine chapel ceiling - classification requested
 * 6) McCain as Maverick

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 5


 * 1) Today's bailout verses the 1929 depression
 * 2) English Consumer Law
 * 3) London railway station logos
 * 4) is there any user with astrology and magick knowledge?
 * 5) Why isn't this little girl....
 * 6) Election of 1824 electoral college
 * 7) book a rabbi carries

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 6


 * 1) New Photographic Genre (style), undeclared, as such, anywhere...
 * 2) Short story called "The Mnemone"
 * 3) Political careers
 * 4) companies for $0.99c
 * 5) hindu
 * 6) Politics and Tribalism
 * 7) Clock painting
 * 8) Afro-Desi

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 7


 * 1) Existing Gulags?
 * 2) Industries open to the world to compete in but utterly dominated by a region or cultural bloc
 * 3) Treasury bonds' risk
 * 4) Offline information
 * 5) Proof of address
 * 6) do violinists get callouses the way guitar players do?
 * 7) fly"s eye dome
 * 8) When was the last time Michigan voted for a Republican presidential candidate?
 * 9) politic in USA
 * 10) Searching for an article on the problem of bearerless names
 * 11) Need reference re: Aroostook War

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 8


 * 1) Opinions
 * 2) Zhuang people
 * 3) 2008 Thai political crisis
 * 4) Swaziland's Territory Claims
 * 5) Pashtun
 * 6) Baloch sindhi film industry
 * 7) Cults
 * 8) what makes a new edition of a book?
 * 9) The Electoral College
 * 10) Senators Obama and McCain, after the election
 * 11) Chinese reform
 * 12) Napoleon

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 9


 * 1) date formats around the world
 * 2) Hummanities homework!!
 * 3) I can't find the damn website!
 * 4) Canterbury Tales
 * 5) Why Asian Women & White men?

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 10


 * 1) Austrapolithecus
 * 2) Russia/Georgia conflict
 * 3) Unusual, ribbony necktie thing
 * 4) Creative Commons question
 * 5) Collateral damage of fixing the financial system
 * 6) President and VP boarding the same plane
 * 7) countries with the least discrimateion? [discrimination]
 * 8) Highest Stock Price
 * 9) If Palin's elected, what happens to her governorship?
 * 10) Painting of George III

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 11


 * 1) Why the Japanese Navy didn't occupy Hawaii in World War 2?
 * 2) Looking for a quote allegedly by Bertrand Russell
 * 3) law
 * 4) Causes of death in royal families in history
 * 5) In defense of poor women
 * 6) Nazi Germany map, confused

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 12


 * 1) Michigan online high schools
 * 2) Titanic

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 13


 * 1) UK Citizenship
 * 2) What does a 0.5% lowering of interest mean?
 * 3) Modern use of pirate flag (Jolly Roger)
 * 4) Alchemical Image Query?
 * 5) Does the term Neo-Hinduism have any consistant meaning?

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 14


 * 1) Building of the Parthenon
 * 2) Remedios Varo painting
 * 3) Hal Bevan Petman
 * 4) Looking for an image: Badge of the House of Windsor
 * 5) British finance rescue
 * 6) Credit default swaps
 * 7) World Population by Gender
 * 8) Economics
 * 9) WW2: European collaboration with Third Reich Germany/Austria

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 15


 * 1) St Paul's Cathedral blueprint
 * 2) Vincent Van Gogh quote
 * 3) Archeology: Mega
 * 4) reagan, ronald
 * 5) who is this guy?
 * 6) Origins of a phrase: "Like ships in the night"
 * 7) LAND RIGHTS AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE!
 * 8) Nature of Opinions  (I am not asking for an opinion about something)
 * 9) Poet Gilbert Maxwell
 * 10) 1920's Marriage Laws
 * 11) If the President and Vice -President are dead...
 * 12) Presidential "Candidate" or "President Elect" Succession

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 16


 * 1) Is China's political system robust enough to withstand the global financial crisis
 * 2) UK Banking problem ... solution
 * 3) President and Vice President nominees
 * 4) What determines the value of money and is there a safety for capitalist economies from the hoarding of wealth by the wealthy?

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 17


 * 1) Roanoke colony
 * 2) Fire Alarm
 * 3) What did John Wesley thought of the French Revolution?
 * 4) Plato's and Aristotle's schools
 * 5) Prediction in the Social Science
 * 6) India Today
 * 7) Sueing for Peace
 * 8) Subsidized Housing

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 18


 * 1) How long since the Chicago Tribune endorsed a Democratic nominee for President?
 * 2) Library Records
 * 3) What is this a reference to?
 * 4) collect data on India's current account balance, capital account balance and forex reserves for the period 2001-2006 and list the major features
 * 5) First photograph
 * 6) US demographics by state
 * 7) Jack Kerouac - "On the road" - looking for a quotation
 * 8) Foreclosed land
 * 9) Decline of science fiction?
 * 10) How much money does a porno website make?

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 19


 * 1) Prime Minister of Israel
 * 2) Estimated Living AND dead world population as of 2008?
 * 3) hindu religion
 * 4) Origin of quote
 * 5) women in public life
 * 6) Judicial
 * 7) Investment Trader Weekly Report
 * 8) Iceland has gone bankrupt -really?
 * 9) Kiwanis Club International constitution and bylaws
 * 10) poverty
 * 11) Can USA Democratic or Republican Parties expel members?

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 20


 * 1) history of the lily as a symbol
 * 2) The Chosen quotation
 * 3) Obscure George Orwell question
 * 4) Painting of a girl
 * 5) VAT
 * 6) Grounding/justification for human rights
 * 7) Hereditary peers
 * 8) Heavenbound?

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 21


 * 1) Finance - Rights and Warrants
 * 2) Latin initials
 * 3) Copyrighted music in non-commerical media
 * 4) Japanese Americans During WWI
 * 5) Okinawa Dugong v. Rumsfeld
 * 6) Cemeteries
 * 7) Childrens Book Title
 * 8) New Hampshire dates for voting since 1776
 * 9) ROBERT CLARK -NAME CHANGED IN 1958 IN N.Y.C.
 * 10) Candidates from former American states
 * 11) BET telethon

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 22


 * 1) "Joe the Plumber" airtime
 * 2) Re: Which historical Pharaoh would be a possible candidate for the one Yu-Gi-Oh! makes mention of.
 * 3) Dating Australian girls
 * 4) Identification of national dress?
 * 5) Who was the first pope to wear glasses?
 * 6) Short story about man dying on the moon
 * 7) Scala cronicas
 * 8) Insider trading & credit crisis
 * 9) When will the result of the 2008 Presidential Election come out?
 * 10) Oath making and the need to speak

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 23


 * 1) Double negative law terminology
 * 2) George IV - date oddity on map
 * 3) American elections?
 * 4) Inflation in Britain
 * 5) US President and Vice President not allowed on same plane
 * 6) What's the title of a newspaper called?
 * 7) The Buddha
 * 8) Invention
 * 9) what had the greater total sum effect on human civilization?

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 24


 * 1) Size of US debt under Republican presidents vs. Democratic presidents
 * 2) Politics of Japan and UN Security Council Reform
 * 3) Indios visiting Pedro II of Brazil in 1898 photograph
 * 4) Village Cry Gysin photo
 * 5) history of gurmukh singhwala
 * 6) Biblioteca Reale
 * 7) electronic publishing
 * 8) the difference between fencing and swordsmanship
 * 9) Jorg Haider
 * 10) Ulster County Gazette

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 25


 * 1) Swordfighting representations
 * 2) China, India, Japan and Russia
 * 3) Such Sweet Thunder
 * 4) Bangladeshi Buddhist and Christians vs. politics
 * 5) Eastern European human appearances
 * 6) ex-USSR city name changes
 * 7) kichener
 * 8) Can anyone here tell me anything about this photograph?
 * 9) Statistics For Ministry Burnout after Bible College/Seminary
 * 10) If a president resigns, why does he submit his resignation to the Secretary of State?
 * 11) Did Cicero Really Say This?

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 26


 * 1) Now for something my friend and I disagree on...
 * 2) Did Enoch Really Die ?
 * 3) Obscure mythological question
 * 4) Sagacity
 * 5) English professors and felonies
 * 6) Flag
 * 7) Diwali and Durga Puja

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 27


 * 1) Michel Suleiman iftar party
 * 2) US Presidential elections
 * 3) Longest lived minister
 * 4) Newspaper endorsement party switches in the United States presidential elections
 * 5) Military Strategies in Feudal Japan
 * 6) Six Story Types
 * 7) Religion - Buddhism
 * 8) Alaskan Independence Party
 * 9) Is Mary Jesus's mother or wife?
 * 10) Magic 60 for US Senate filibuster

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 28


 * 1) Coporate Social Responsiblity
 * 2) Aid for Microsoft in Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008?
 * 3) How does a share dividend make shareholders better off?
 * 4) Canadian and American human appearances
 * 5) men sexual behaviour
 * 6) The ACTUAL English "Throne"
 * 7) Hazara People
 * 8) Afro-Desi
 * 9) U.S. between WW1 and the Cold War
 * 10) US Export Control intent
 * 11) What is a person?
 * 12) Massacre of Glencoe - the song
 * 13) Five minutes of fame... in 1700

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 29


 * 1) Statue on the Zeil in Frankfurt Germany
 * 2) Chair not allowed to vote?
 * 3) Always 4 years between US elections?
 * 4) Wearing motorcycle helmets inside shops (UK)
 * 5) The daily lives of people in history
 * 6) Lilith Fact or fiction?
 * 7) Volkswagen
 * 8) tag British news presenter and politicians are wearing  at the moment

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 30


 * 1) the lords prayer
 * 2) Willian McGonagall
 * 3) Asian to White Racial Transformation
 * 4) Abraham killing an Idolator
 * 5) Lying in polls
 * 6) The legal  importance of a comma

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 31


 * 1) Enjambment
 * 2) Homosexuality
 * 3) Sierra Leone Civil War
 * 4) Yet another US election question
 * 5) UN
 * 6) Baby slapping
 * 7) Halloween, an adult holiday?
 * 8) Coca-Cola
 * 9) does someone know about this book
 * 10) President
 * 11) Did an American soldier ever kill a Russian soldier in the Cold War?